TLDP is short for The Linux Documentation Project, an organization of volunteers authoring, reviewing and managing documents about the Linux operating system.
The main problem here is TLDP maintainers usually are rather soft-hearted, so partly out of melancholy, partly out of respect and sometimes partly because of the lack of volunteers for upgrading a document, they tend to archive everything.
TLDP lost the linuxdoc.org domain because the webmaster managed to claim ownership of it.
Discussion on wikifying TLDP works started quite some time ago and since I am working on various technical solutions for TLDP I decided to give it a try.
There is however no doubt that TLDP also has process issues.
This is important for TLDP when running off versions for mirroring or CD inclusion.
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The Linux Documentation Project Weekly News(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
TLDP WN had the chance of asking Fred Stutzman a couple of questions.
We're happy to handle the hosting, and let the TLDP folk work on what they do best, helping the world get access to the documentation that helps people use and understand Linux.
In a time of trouble (one especially notable episode of data corruption), we were able to repoint LDP to another site (with the administrator's permission, of course), and users were unaware of the switch as we restored the corrupted device.
TLDP Job Descriptions(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
The purpose of this document is to formally record the various volunteer positions that exist within The Linux Documentation Project (TLDP) as it is presently structured.
Conversely, the inclusion of a job description in this document should not be seen as an endorsement of the necessity or validity of that position.
The primary method of determining positions at TLDP is by collecting information from the TLDP volunteer list.
We could do with some extra mirrors, for instance in Costa Rica, Croatia, French Guiana, Indonesia, Macau, Pakistan, Peru, Puerto Rico, Russia and Ukraine, where we have none for the moment (There is a cool world map of the TLDP mirrors).
The article contains explanations on the name change from LinuxDoc to TLDP and completes the history from the point on where it stopped in our last publication of the matter.
Content. As a TLDP author it is good to remember that this is the most important piece.
TLDP is a living, growing body of knowledge, not just a publish-and-forget-it static entity.
TLDP template files for DocBook (XML and SGML) and Linuxdoc SGML are available from the TLDP website at http://www.tldp.org/authors/index.html#resources.
Guylhem Aznar wrote to the editors of Linux Gazette asking if it would be possible for LG.net to submit documents to TLDP in a format that the TLDP could use to redistribute on its website under a free license.
He indicated that a clear source format with semantic tags (such as docbook or linuxdoc) is preferable and that mirroring the documents would be a better opportunity to support LG.net than simply mirroring the website.
During the discussion on The LDP document licenses, Guylhem Aznar suggested that we should require authors to automatically grant the right to TLDP to appoint a new maintainer for their documents when they can no longer be reached for some time.
This document provides instructions for installing the TLDP XSL style sheets and using them to produce various output formats from DocBook XML source files.
The TLDP-XSL package is a customization layer for the standard DocBook XSL style sheets.
Please send feedback concerning this document and the tldp-xsl style sheets to dhorton@NOSPAM.member.fsf.org
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